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Thrinno Design Analysis Software Helps Metal AM Services with Price Calculation 3D Printing Processes

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Software start-up Thrinno is launching a product targeted at metal AM service providers that allows them to provide quick and professional price calculations with visual design feedback for their clients. To make more efficient use of resources in preparing quotations, current practice in the industry is to use quick and rough, or expensive time-consuming estimations. Through the application of complex 3D algorithms and visual feedback, Thrinno is helping both designer and metal AM service provider to remain profitable in this competitive industry.

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Forbes Shines Spotlight on 3Doodler’s $20 Million Business 3D Printer Hardware

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Last spring, Forbes named WobbleWorks one of the 10 most successful companies built on Kickstarter. At the time, it had raised $3.9 million on the crowdfunding platform in two campaigns for the 3Doodler, a 3D printing pen that had launched there in 2013. Today WobbleWorks has yearly sales for around $20 million from three different lines of pens and recently signed licensing deals with the Cartoon Network and CBS for kits featuring, respectively, the Powerpuff Girls and Star Trek.

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Microsoft Changes Windows Holographic to Windows Mixed Reality and Ships Dev Kits 3D Printing Processes

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Windows 10 is set to become the most complete platform across the broadest range of mixed reality devices and experiences. Microsoft believes that mixed reality can empower new waves of creativity and should be affordable and attainable for everyone. At the GDC Conference in San Francisco Microsoft announced that to reflect this broad objective the platform has changed name from Windows Holographic to Windows Mixed Reality.

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Roland Presents New Dental 3D Printer and Mill to Advance Lab Workflow Efficiency 3D Printer Hardware

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Roland DG Corporation, a leading provider of dental milling devices worldwide, announced today the release of its first dental 3D printer, the DWP-80S, to assist in the production of dentures. Launched simultaneously, the DWX-52DC is the newest addition to the company’s DWX series dental mills and incorporates several new automated functions for the unattended production of precision dental restorations. With the announcement, Roland DG now offers the dental industry both additive (3D printing) and subtractive (milling) manufacturing processes to improve the workflow of dental technicians. The products also represent the first to be released from Roland DG’s recently announced DGSHAPE business brand.

Apis Cor 3D prints first on-site house in Russia in one day for ,134 3D Printing Processes

Apis Cor 3D prints first on-site house in Russia in one day for $10,134 3D Printing Processes

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The first house in Russia built using 3D printing technology has been completed in Stupino, in the Moscow region of Russia. Russian house 3D printing pioneers Apis Cor in cooperation with PIK proceeded to print the building using a mobile 3D printer. Construction took place at the Apis Cor company’s test facility in the town of Stupino. Printing of self-bearing walls, partitions and building envelope were done in less than a day: pure machine time of printing amounted to 24 hours.

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These are the top companies offering composite filament for 3D printing graphene 3D Printing Processes

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Graphene is the material of the future. It has been the material of the future and – at the rate things are going – it might always be the material of the future. Some 3D printing material manufacturers, however, are really trying to make it the materials of the present by offering a range of thermal extrusion filaments (and maybe soon even some laser sintering powders) for 3D printing graphene, which use graphene as a reinforcement in a thermopolymer matrix. Lets see which they are and what they can offer today (and what they will offer tomorrow).

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3D Systems 2016 Revenues Decreasing Slightly as Company Rebounds Money & Funding

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While some were expecting the armageddon – after the excessive euphoria of the 2013-2014 period – the company seems to be doing just fine with 3D Systems 2016 revenues decreasing just slightly for the full fiscal year. To be precise, revenues decreased 5% to $633.0 million compared to $666.2 million in 2015, which included approximately $20 million of revenue from consumer products that the company discontinued at the end of 2015. The company reported a GAAP loss of $0.35 per share for 2016 compared to a loss of $5.85 per share in 2015 and non-GAAP earnings of $0.46 per share compared to non-GAAP earnings of $0.27 per share in 2015.